ELA6+Courage+Bud+Not+Buddy

__Bud, Not Buddy __ Christopher Paul Curtistoc

2000 Coretta Scott King Award winner || How does the character demonstrate courage? ||
 * **Title ** ||  Bud, Not Buddy ||
 * **Awards ** || 2000 Newberry Medal Winner
 * ^  || Newbery Coretta Scott King ||
 * **Genre ** ||  Historical fiction (1936) ||
 * **Book Dedication ** || Long list of people; “all of whom lead by example, all of whom have been models of compassion, strength and love, all of whom I will remember forever.” ||
 * **Characters ** || What do we already know about the title character? ||
 * **Main character ** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">10 year-old Bud ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Character questions ** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">How does the character change over time?
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Setting ** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Flint, Michigan

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Mid-sized industrial city, home to factories and car assembly plants, cold climate ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Time period ** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;"> 1936 ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Historical focus/people ** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Great depression, labor strikes(Flint sit-down strike), General Motors, telegrams,jazz/swing music, Cab Calloway, The Rat Pack, Stock Market Crash, “Hoovervilles” ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Paired informational texts** (historical time period) || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|The historic 1936-37 Flint auto plant strikes]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">**Paired informational texts** (historical time period) || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|The historic 1936-37 Flint auto plant strikes]


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Song] (youtube video)


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Article on sit-down strike]


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Article on Hoovervilles]


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Great depression photo essay]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">(You can also use the resources identified in the additional readings section of unit 4 curriculum) || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|student written essays on courage]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 1.5;">[|Jazz music] (youtube video) ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Paired informational texts (courage)


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|Jill Biden essay on courage]


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|10 revolutionary acts of courage by ordinary people]


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">[|personal story of courage] ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Book excerpt for ELA test practice ** || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Chapter 9, pages 88-95 ||

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Chapter One =
 * Questions for __Bud, Not Buddy__ **
 * 1) What does the title of the story suggest about the main character?
 * 2) Reread the line “All the kids watched the woman as she moved along the line, her high heeled shoes sounding like little firecrackers going off on the wooden floor.”
 * 3) What literary element does the author use in this sentence? Why did he choose to use this element?
 * 4) What does losing a tooth signify to Bud?
 * 5) Why does the author start and end the chapter with the same sentence?
 * 6) “Here we go again.”
 * 7) What does the story suggest about life?
 * 8) Why is turning six significant?
 * 9) This story takes place during the Depression; what does the name of the band; Herman E. Calloway and the Dusky Devastators of the Depression symbolize in this story?
 * 10) Identify one person in chapter one and explain what they did that demonstrated an act of courage?

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